Ricard Martínez Martínez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Constitutional Law, Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Valencia and Director of the Chair of Privacy and Digital Transformation. His work lies at the intersection between law and clinical practice, advising and training healthcare professionals and institutions on privacy, data governance and regulatory compliance in the health sector.
At European level, he participates in key data and AI in health initiatives linked to oncological medical imaging. In particular, he contributes to the development of Cancer Image Europe, the hub of the European Cancer Imaging Initiative, conceived as an interoperable and secure infrastructure for federated and cross border analysis of cancer images using artificial intelligence. In this context, EUCAIM organises its work into dedicated work packages, including ethical and legal aspects, to ensure trust, security and data protection in the access and reuse of imaging and associated clinical data.
He also has a strong track record in pioneering projects aimed at “making data work” to design research solutions and patient oriented services (BigMedilytics, BodyPass, CRANE, ROSIA and WellBased), contributing his expertise to the design of data governance models (roles, access rules, safeguards, risk assessment and compliance). Nationally, he has worked on data governance at IIS La Fe, in the context of federated data spaces that integrate clinical, genomic and biobank information with AI while preserving patient privacy. He has also been proposed as a member of the Ethics and Scientific Integrity Commission of the IMPaCT precision medicine infrastructure (ISCIII), whose Strategic Plan defines a transversal ethics and integrity line to ensure compliance with ethical principles and scientific integrity in the processing of data and biological samples and in the communication of results